and i've gotta say it is windy! I'm in Annapolis Royal and was walking off the jet lag before breakfast (I waited to get up after the sun rose, I love jet lag) It's very strong from the east unfortunately... I can recommend avoiding a company called Cloud Shuttle, a minibus service operating between Yarmouth and Halifax - even with a prebooking they'll leave you stranded at the airport to take a couple of buses so you arrive 5 hours later than planned. It's a really beautiful place though... very quaint olde worlde town (more like a large village), with plenty of tourist trinket shops and realtors.
Just got an email about an hour ago from Dave White, saying he's on the ferry to Digby. He will try to drive the Day 1 route to see how it looks and be in town tomorrow I guess. Look out for him! He may be the unicyclist with the most years of experience in the race. In fact, his story would probably make for a great article in Uni... 🙂
-- johnfoss
John Foss Email: "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com -----------------------------------------------
Kelly (my wife) and I crossed on the Ferry from Prince Edward Island to Nova Scotia this morning and made our way to Halifax via the first half of Day 4 backwards (New Glasgow to Brookfield).
There's only one word that's important to describing the route today:
WINDY !!!
At times it was howling. There were mini dust storms picking up in fields. You could notice the wind pushing the car around on the road. I'm all for a challenge, but for me it would have been really difficult on a Uni.
Good news is it's supposed to be much less windy tomorrow . . . and other than the wind, the weather is excellent.
I wish Google Earth was real time so everyone could watch RTL
I believe the race will be constantly reported on the RTL web site. I think the idea was to have realtime mapping of the location of each team, but not 100% sure about that.
-- johnfoss
John Foss Email: "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com -----------------------------------------------
All right, we need to get clear on who we can count on to play the role of Gossip Columnist for the RTL. We need a Bar Report, and we need one soon. People started arriving today. Who's been spotted in the hotel restaurant? Who was drinking with whom in the hotel lounge? Which unlikely couple was already risking their race by doing post-beer freestlyle cokering in front of the hotel? Have we seen any former world record holders, and if so is it clear yet whether they were lying about their lack of training?
Who's stepping up? Maybe the role can fall by default to whichever rider was officially "last in". I'm thinking it's either Geoff or Jeff, which would be cool because then we wouldn't have to strain our memories too much to remember the name.
